CSU’s Terrorism Studies program is a world leading coursework Masters degree, complimented by an active research agenda focused on terrorism, insurgency, and other violent non-state threats; contemporary conflict; and the challenges

these issues present for governments that counter them.

http://terrorismstudies.csu.edu.au/

Monday

30 April 2018

Time:

1745 for 1800

Venue:

Member’s Dining Room 3 Old Parliament House

Join us for drinks and canapes in the Member’s

Bar from 1900

RSVP:

terrorismstudies@csu.edu.au

PUBLIC SEMINAR: THE EVOLVING GLOBAL TERRORIST THREAT

THE EVOLVING GLOBAL TERRORIST THREAT

Professor Bruce Hoffman

Walsh School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University

The current threat environment posed by the

emergence and spread of ISIS and the

stubborn resilience and long-game approach of

al-Qaeda makes a new strategy and new

organizational and institutional behaviours

necessary. The non-traditional challenges to

our national security and foreign policy posed

by elusive and deadly irregular adversaries

emphasizes the need to anchor changes that

will more effectively close the gap between

detecting irregular adversarial activity and

rapidly defeating it. The effectiveness of this

strategy will be based on our capacity to think

like a networked enemy, in anticipation of how

they may act in a variety of situations, aided by

different resources. This goal requires that we

organize our collective response for maximum

efficiency, information sharing, and the ability to

function quickly and effectively under new

operational definitions.

AUSTRALIAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICING AND SECURITY

The Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (AGSPS) is a unique institution, providing post-graduate tertiary education that is both academically rigorous and professionally relevant. As a school of Charles Sturt University, AGSPS is able to leverage the highest quality academic research and teaching capabilities, in conjunction with a staff cohort of experienced professionals from law enforcement, intelligence, and counter terrorism

backgrounds. This combination sees AGSPS able to deliver world leading post-graduate education across a spectrum of law enforcement and

national security related disciplines, with a focus on ensuring delivery of

globally relevant education, training, and research.

PUBLIC SEMINAR: THE EVOLVING GLOBAL TERRORIST THREAT

PROFESSOR BRUCE HOFFMAN

Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for over four decades. He is a tenured professor in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and until recently was director of its Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program. Hoffman is also visiting Professor of Terrorism Studies at St Andrews University, Scotland. He previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation, where he was also director of RAND’s Washington Office and vice president for external affairs. Hoffman was appointed by the U.S. Congress as a commissioner on the 9/11 Review Commission and has been Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency; adviser on counterterrorism to the Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq; and, an adviser on counterinsurgency to Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad, Iraq.

In November 1994, the Director of Central Intelligence awarded him the United States Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, which recognizes sustained superior performance of high value that distinctly benefits the interests and national security of the United States. Hoffman’s most recent books include The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat (2014); Anonymous Soldiers (2015), which was awarded the Washington Institute for Near East Studies’ Gold Medal for the best book on Middle Eastern politics, history and society published in 2015 and also named The Jewish Book of the Year for 2015 by the Jewish National Book Council; and, Inside Terrorism (3

rd edition, 2017).

Hoffman is currently a visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center.